Fresh controversy over proposed Gypsy and Traveller sites in East Lindsey

0 Have your say Fresh controversy has erupted over proposed provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites in East Lindsey.
At a meeting of the district council’s executive board last night (Wednesday), members agreed to earmark two locations - one off Brackenborough Road in Louth for a permanent site and another on Mablethorpe industrial estate for a transit site.
But the initiative prompted an instant response from former Mablethorpe mayor Coun Tony Howard who is not an executive board member but who was present at the meeting.
He said he would ‘call in’ the decision - a constitutional gambit... read more

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